tijdloze.rocks

"In the Pines", ook bekend als "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" of "Black Girl", is een traditioneel Amerikaans volksliedje dat is samengesteld uit de volksliedjes "In the Pines" en "The Longest Train". Van beide liedjes is de auteur niet bekend, maar ze stammen af van de jaren '70 van de negentiende eeuw of eerder. Het liedje is opgenomen door veel artiesten uit verschillende genres, maar wordt het meest geassocieerd met de bluegrassmuzikant Bill Monroe en de bluesmuzikant Lead Belly, die het allebei vaak opnamen in de jaren '40 en '50 van de twintigste eeuw. De Britse popband The Four Pennies scoorde een hit met het nummer in 1964. In 1993 speelde de Amerikaanse grungeband Nirvana het nummer live, wat een jaar later verscheen op het album MTV Unplugged in New York.

"In the Pines" (Roud 3421) is a traditional American folk song originating from two songs, "In the Pines" and "The Longest Train", both of whose authorship is unknown and date back to at least the 1870s. The songs originated in the Southern Appalachian area of the United States in the contiguous areas of East Tennessee and Kentucky, Western North Carolina and Northern Georgia.

Versions of the song have been recorded by many artists in numerous genres, but it was most often associated with American bluegrass musician Bill Monroe and American blues musician Lead Belly, both of whom recorded a version of the song in the 1940s, before achieving wide fame with the grunge band Nirvana.

In 1964, a version of the song by English Beat music group the Four Pennies reached the top-twenty in the United Kingdom. A live rendition by American grunge band Nirvana, based on Lead Belly's interpretation, was recorded during their MTV Unplugged performance in 1993, and released the following year on their platinum-selling album, MTV Unplugged in New York. The song was listed as "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" on that album.